Intel Solid State Hard Drives (SSD) vs. SATA Drives

Why Use Solid State Drives?

• No moving parts = longer lifecycle

• Silent

• Faster boot time

• Faster application loading

• Faster drive access time

• Shock resistant

• 900% overall system

• 1.2 Million hour life (MTBF)

Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) represent a revolutionary breakthrough that delivers a giant leap in storage performance. Intel Solid-State Drives are designed to satisfy the most demanding business professional, media creators, and technology enthusiasts. These new drives bring a high level of performance and reliability to desktop and notebook PC storage. (See specs below)

Why wait for a traditional hard disk drive to spin up? Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel solid-state drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness. SSDs offer instant access to the drive which means that computer boot time is dramatically reduced.

And for laptop PCs, the lower power needs of Intel SSDs translate to longer battery life and lighter notebooks. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence.

Better by Design

Drawing from decades of memory engineering experience, and now on new, industry-leading compute-quality 34nm NAND flash memory manufacturing processes, Intel® Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives are designed to deliver outstanding performance, featuring the latest-generation native SATA interface with an advanced architecture employing 10 parallel NAND flash channels equipped with multi-level cell NAND flash memory.

With powerful Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations, Intel Mainstream SATA SSDs deliver higher input/output per second and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market today - and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives. These drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, meaning Intel drives not only perform better - they last longer with a 1.2 million hour life expectancy!

• More responsive than traditional hard drives for a better overall PC experience.

• High SATA sequential read speed performance

• Up to 500 MB/s Read; 315 MB/s Write (250GB)

• No moving parts reduces the risk of data loss in case of laptop bumps or drops.

• Consumes less power than a traditional hard drive so you can stay mobile longer